Milla Spivey
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Mmm.. the reason I’m asking is that I watched a youtube video on consolidating in Premiere first time you mentioned consolidation. The Youtube guy said you can get rid of unused clips in Premiere project itself, but in order to reduce the clips on your hard drive you need to go one by one. But someone I had talked to said he knew that Avid had long had a feature that you could get rid of unused footage in your drive, too. Provided you keep originals, of course. So I double-checked with you guys if I need to delete them one by one. As you now mentioned ” duplicating the files that you used in your timeline and saving thide duplicates to another location”, I’ll keep looking for more manuals on ‘consolidating’. Thanks so much!
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When you say “When you consolidate a project you normally would consolidate the project and the media to another drive”, do you mean I need to delete unused files one by one? Because from the tutorial it’s easy to delete them from the project file, but not where it’s all stored, the media itself. Or is there a faster way to only copy just the clips you actually used while consolidating? I’m confused
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Oh yes, I keep buying the hard drives and yes, I do use proxies editing 4K. Question is, if all my footage is imported into the project, it becomes so huge I can’t figure how to share all of it with the color correction person without deleting unneeded footage files one by one. Because I do not give just my premiere file for color work, but also copy all of the footage with it, correct? I am not sure if I’m making myself clear
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Thanks a lot, Greg. It shows how to get rid of unneeded clips in the sequence. But in order to share my project with someone to do color correction, I can’t really get rid of all the extra footage and unused clips inside the project (on my hard drive) unless I go one by one, correct? And that would take days and days as I used a little here and there, but most of the clips included in the project were unused.
I also have another project that will take tons of space as it was shot in 4K. And it’s about an animal, so 90% of the shots are unusable because the animal didn’t exactly wait for my direction, move elsewhere, jump out of focus, etc. That project I have not started editing yet. But I doubt it makes sense to preview the files as there could be some 5-min. long clip for example of which several seconds here and there would be worth taking into the timeline. But that would leave me with an unbelievable amount of footage in the project again. It’s much easier for me to import the whole 5-min. clip, and then figure out if it contains several seconds of footage I can use. And I’ll be making and changing these decisions of what’s worth to keep as I keep editing. But all of those GBs in there sounds scary! any advice?